When my wife comes home from work, I tell her that the dogs are glad she is back from being gone forever again because she’s gone forever and is never coming back every day.
The dogs know she’s been gone forever because they counted. My pupper does the same 😭
Now we need this but with a cat and the last panel reading “where the fuck have you been and where’s my damn food”
Do people who perpetuate this stereotype have cats? Because it seems like they don’t. My cat is psyched and affectionate as hell when I come home. All of my cats have been the same way.
Fully agree. Mine runs out to meet me, does the same arm stretch greeting, and isn’t hassling me for treats or anything.
Mine also. He waits in the windowsill looking for me, and when he sees me coming he gets super pumped up and races to the front door
Once I set up a motion detecting webcam inside once when I had to go away for a day (32 hours to be precise lol). Looking at the footage later, I saw him pacing back and forward between windows, clearly pining for me. I’m sorry buddy!
Both of mine stay outside waiting for me at the time I usually arrive. They greet me afectiously, follow me inside and ask for pets and belly rubs. Then they tell me to go fuck myself and leave.
When I come back at a random time I just yell their names at the door, a inter-dimensional portal opens on the far side of the street and they each come running to greet me, love me and, you guessed, tell me to go fuck myself.
I love those little bastards.
I think a lot of people just don’t know how to read cats as well as dogs. Cats can be very aloof but still very loving and most people just know how to read body language from dogs more than cats. Knowing that when a cat gives you that narrow eyed glare and slow blinking is actually a sign of affection is a good indicator that cats are just weird little things.
A lot of people also just treat cats as they would dogs and are surprised they don’t get the same responses.
It’s more a case of me assuming that it’s obvious that it’s a stereotype. You might say I dropped an /s which in this case has a different meaning.
Maybe, but either way expect some people to call out when stereotypes aren’t very accurate.
Yeh, it was totally justified.
I was freaking about to cry at first haha. Well done. 💗
Right?! I was like “OH no. I haven’t even finished my coffee yet. I am NOT ready to start my day this way!” 🤣
“master”
I think they see us as family members more than masters
Yeah, “master/subject” is a bummer of a way to think about your relationship with your pet
I think they see us as gods. That’s why they get so upset when we can’t do what they expect us to do something magical.
Cat version by the one and only the Kiffness: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwLLFbC1H0c0
The burden of the obsequious.
Indeed…shallow, and pedantic.
I just adopted a dog that was breeding stock in a puppy mill. She bonded to me right away but has major separation anxiety. Even if I’m gone for 5 minutes, she goes nuts when I get back and acts like I’ve been gone for months.
“The dog got in the food drawer again… and do the dishes!”
That made me think of That Garfield comic
That the Futurama episode.
Call me weird, but I will never understand the compulsion to imbue these barely sentient creatures with human-like sapience.
It is okay to love and appreciate your pet, but it is fucking weird to project human characteristics on them.
Your dog isn’t thinking thoughts like this. Your dog can’t think thoughts like this.
This is masturbatory, purely self-serving self-worship ascribed to an animal.
You’re weird
It’s… It’s a comic?
seems like you’re having a hard time
Yes, anything other than purely unadulterated gushing love and adoration of dogs and dog culture is automatically miserly humbugging, obviously.
No, it’s the general air of sociopathy and just kinda being an ass that no one likes.
Did you know that some humans don’t think with words? Do you believe they’re barely sentient as well?
The issue is sapience, not sentience. To imply that even a stupid human, a sapient being, is in any way comparable to the intelligence of a dog is offensive
So you’re saying dogs are incapable of acquiring knowledge or wisdom? They’re born and die at the same intellectual level?
I’m saying they’re capable of minimal animal-level intelligence, not human-like sapience implying higher thought. I believe this to be fact, not subjective opinion.
Other animal’s intelligence is clearly different form human’s, but every study they do on the intelligence of animals shows them to be more intelligent and closer to us than was previously thought. You assuming to understand the experience of dogs is, like you said, belief. You should have just stopped there though, because your belief is just that, a belief, not a fact.
I see the comic as an attempt to translate the existential stress a dog “feels” to the human experience, especially it’s intensity. Because even with no language, no consciousness as humans have it, dogs do experience intensity you could measure in cortisol levels, heartbeat, eye movement etc.
The comic is useful for those who are interested in translating that to human experience. A communicative form that works well is narrative framing. It gives your empathy a correspondant in your conscious thinking.
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